How Web Tracking Works and Why You Never See It

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A web page isn’t one thing from one place. The article comes from the news site, but the fonts may come from a font service, the ads from an ad network, the share button from a social network and the visitor counter from an analytics company. Your browser fetches each piece from wherever it lives, and every one of those places learns that someone at your internet address just opened that article.

Watchkeeper Is a Tiny Free Browser That Shows You Who Is Watching

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Open a news article and you see a headline, some text and an ad or two. You don’t see the other companies the page told about your visit while it loaded. On many news sites that list runs to a dozen names or more, and nothing in a normal browser window mentions any of them.

Watchkeeper is a small browser built to show that list. You type an address and use the page as you would anywhere else. A panel on the right fills in as the page works: the other sites it contacts, the cookies it leaves, the keys it writes to your computer and the scripts that read your device’s fingerprint.

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How Web Tracking Works and Why You Never See It

Watchkeeper Is a Tiny Free Browser That Shows You Who Is Watching